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Hilda Breslin, Helen O'Rourke, Tom Ryan, Kieran O'Donnell TD and GAA members from St Oliver Plunkett and St Brigids.
An event to mark the playing of the GAA All-Ireland finals of 130 years ago and the opening of an exhibit to commemorate the links between our National sport and the Phoenix Park took place this week at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre in Dublin.
Kieran O’Donnell TD, Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), representatives of the OPW and officials from the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association attended the opening of a new exhibit in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre.
The Exhibition entitled ‘Clann of Gaelic Games’ is a collaboration between the GAA Museum at Croke Park and the OPW, and showcases centuries of hurling, camogie and football activity in the Phoenix Park.
GAA founder Michael Cusack was inspired to establish the GAA on November 1, 1884 - in Hayes Hotel, Thurles - following his efforts over the previous year trying to revive an interest in hurling through training sessions and exhibition matches held in the Phoenix Park.
As far back as the 1700s, hurling has been played in the Park with teams having once competed on the land of the Vice Regal lodge, now Áras an Uachtaráin.
After the establishment of the GAA, the first ever inter-county match took place in the Phoenix Park in 1886 between Tipperary and Galway in hurling – the success of which is credited with encouraging the establishment of the All-Ireland senior championships the following year.
The All-Ireland Championship finals of 1893, which were not played until June 1894, were played in the Phoenix Park with Blackrock of Cork winning in hurling against Confederation of Kilkenny and Young Irelands of Wexford crowned football champions after a final against Cork’s Dromtarriffe.
The exhibit in the Visitor Centre will run for the next two months while a plaque to mark the 1893 finals was unveiled outside. An oak tree was planted by Minister O’Donnell to symbolise the strength of the link between Gaelic games and the Park.
The exhibition will launch on Wednesday 3rd of July at 10:30am in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8 and will run for the months of July and August 2024, which is open 7 days a week from 9.30am to 5pm
Listings Information
Exhibition: Clann of Gaelic Games
Gallery: Ashtown Visitor Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin 2
Dates: Wednesday 3 July 2024 to Friday 30 August 2024
Opening Hours: Daily, 9.30am to 5.00pm
Website: www.phoenixpark.ie
Admission: Free
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